Diablo IV

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2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 8271 Ratings

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  1. trylemontea
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    worst games on the earth. Blizzard what are you doing? disaster. awful game.
  2. Merithyn
    Aug 14, 2023
    2
    The themes and mechanics are just not enough for a game released 2023. I have more fun playing Diablo 2 again. The concepts feel stale and out of date. And all that micro transaction machinations and seasons and what not are totally unecessary.
  3. VomitBog
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    I.. cannot believe this.. When I played this game in Beta I was super excited.. The character build, the environment, the classes everything seemed to be too good to be made by THIS Blizzard... But the more I played it the more disappointed I came to be.. Repetitive gameplay, same skill cycle, only a selective amount of skills are actually playable.. And the story is actually ok and is theI.. cannot believe this.. When I played this game in Beta I was super excited.. The character build, the environment, the classes everything seemed to be too good to be made by THIS Blizzard... But the more I played it the more disappointed I came to be.. Repetitive gameplay, same skill cycle, only a selective amount of skills are actually playable.. And the story is actually ok and is the best thing about the game currently.. It feels more like a mobile game than a PC/Console game.. I cannot believe they screwed it like they did with Diablo 3.. Marius in Diablo 2 had a better fate than us Blizzard fans...… Expand
  4. SethHan
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4, the best garbage game ever.

    In the world of nerfs, nerfs, nerfs, bugs, let alone the taste of eating items, I'm busy picking up trash, and I'm nervous about organizing my inventory.

    There will never be another Blizzard game purchase ^^
  5. yolosan
    Aug 14, 2023
    4
    Beautiful art & design, unfinished beta gameplay, which is kind of garbage after you get into the end-game.
  6. laumotor
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Don't waste money on this game, even their dev also doesn't know the game at all, don't expect it will bring you any fun.
  7. Nikeyla
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Its not an arpg nor mmo. Its a bland version of both, stripped of things ppl like about these things. As an arpg fan, I just cant find anything I would enjoy playing for more than few hours. I miss build options. There are no real options what and how to play the game, which is the reason ppl play arpgs for. No itemisation. Low/no replayability. There are also no such things like LFG orIts not an arpg nor mmo. Its a bland version of both, stripped of things ppl like about these things. As an arpg fan, I just cant find anything I would enjoy playing for more than few hours. I miss build options. There are no real options what and how to play the game, which is the reason ppl play arpgs for. No itemisation. Low/no replayability. There are also no such things like LFG or mmorpg depth of gameplay.
    There is no end game content at this point.
    Agressive monetisation. The game started with literally pay to win race, huge prepaid price with tons of other forms of monetisation. Im worried what comes next. Knowing blizzard, most likely this game will contain all forms of monetisations known to human kind.
    Its not for arpg fans. Its for casual dads, who are nostalgic about diablo and want to avoid complicated games. For arpgs there are way better games, like PoE, LE, TLI, GD. For mmorpg just go WoW or FF. All these games are better and cheaper.    … Expand
  8. ryouseijunn
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    I've been an adventurer too , but it wasn't my cup of tea , too much pain , too little gain
  9. Zackson228
    Aug 13, 2023
    1
    it was an amazing game until it was fked by it own "BALANCE TEAM"
    cool graphics and the gameplay feels some what okay atleast for some class. (barb and druid early game feels GARBAGE) i changed my class twice and saw how much better rogue was. so theres no point to continue when ur fav class is dudu and the team decides to nerf the intire game
  10. BeefSmoothie
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    I have been wrestling on if I wanted to give this game a 4 or a 6 so I settled on 5. Then I wrote out my review and changed my mind to 4. It's so low for a simple reason: the game isn't fun.

    The team did a good job of making it look like Diablo should again, the story is more interesting and detailed than usual, and the voice acting is good. Those are the positives. EDIT: Lowering my    I have been wrestling on if I wanted to give this game a 4 or a 6 so I settled on 5. Then I wrote out my review and changed my mind to 4. It's so low for a simple reason: the game isn't fun.

    The team did a good job of making it look like Diablo should again, the story is more interesting and detailed than usual, and the voice acting is good. Those are the positives.

    EDIT: Lowering my review score for the predatory, awful changes the first season introduced.

    The biggest, most glaring negative is the level scaling, by far. Each fight feels like an annoyance, because it's not really making you any stronger. It's just slowing you down. Even if you gain a level, so do the monsters. You're really getting relatively weaker as the game goes on. And there are so many random pointless fights as you go from one objective to another.

    And those random pointless fights are against the same mobs over and over. There might be some color changes, but that's about it. The environments are more varied, but when you keep running back and forth to do quests all you're really thinking about is the annoying fights you have to deal with. I've thought a few times about trying a different class and I just keep thinking about how little desire I have to slog through all of that again.

    The UI is bad and annoying, there's no overlay map so I just keep tabbing the world map open and closed over and over. There's no search for skills or for your inventory. Gotta design everything around console I guess.    … Expand
  11. zxc50079
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 有夠爛可以別再亂改亂用了嗎？遊戲體驗都沒了大家千萬別買買了浪費錢… Expand
  12. timorus
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Unfinished game $70. So many bugs, devs refuse to fix or address them. Do not buy
  13. Warlordkilakan
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Dog **** end game. Open world game build around farming nm dungeons because its the only worthwhile end game content tk complete.... Open world game where you hardly ever encounter other players. Lack luster itemization. Lack of qol is insane. Last Epoch has 1000x the amount of qol and the resources and size of that team is much smaller than d4. Dog**** game
  14. WiredMonk
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Clearly, not Baldur's Gate 3.

    Just another cash crab with nothing new or innovative. The dev defends releasing garbage and suggesting not every game can be Baldur's Gate 3. No kidding. When you choose failure (we know it's not choosing to fail, it's choosing to be cheap and work only towards shareholder profits) you will absolutely fail. Diablo IV proves this hands down. Mildly    Clearly, not Baldur's Gate 3.

    Just another cash crab with nothing new or innovative. The dev defends releasing garbage and suggesting not every game can be Baldur's Gate 3. No kidding. When you choose failure (we know it's not choosing to fail, it's choosing to be cheap and work only towards shareholder profits) you will absolutely fail. Diablo IV proves this hands down. Mildly entertaining for a while, but just spins right back into repetition like Diablo 3. Choose to make garbage and guess what? You get exactly garbage. Well done Activision/Blizzard. Way to choose not to make Baldur's Gate 3. You succeeded immensely.    … Expand
  15. bigsweetz
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Blizzard should be ashamed but unfortunately I don't think a corporate board of directors feels emotions. Stay clear, this game was made with insidious intent and does not want you to have fun.
  16. Devodiabolocal
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Most predatory anti consumer piece of media I’ve ever consumed they took all the good faith of the Diablo franchise and sold it off to the investors. These people don’t care about the people who buy their product! If you have any self respect you will avoid this game like the plague!
  17. wrobexee
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    I have played Diablo since D1, skipped Immortal. The Diablo series and Blizzard games in general used to be a sure beat of quality, game play and storytelling. But those days are far behind us now. The quality of the cinematics in D4 are great and the dark themes are there. I am struggling to play through the campaign on 1 character. Act 1 story feels disjointed and isnt exciting at all,I have played Diablo since D1, skipped Immortal. The Diablo series and Blizzard games in general used to be a sure beat of quality, game play and storytelling. But those days are far behind us now. The quality of the cinematics in D4 are great and the dark themes are there. I am struggling to play through the campaign on 1 character. Act 1 story feels disjointed and isnt exciting at all, having to collect renown doesn't belong here in Diablo either. The statues are meh, really more of a distraction. All the defenders say the game gets good at endgame, I don't play endgame in Diablo, seasons dont do it for me. I enjoyed D3's campaign enough to go through it on all classes and it had seasons. For $120 the game should be good from the moment I create my first character. They charge a premium for the game and then try and lure you into micro transactions with xmogs and season passes. For me, Blizzard has gone from company that used to output great high quality games that you knew were going to be good to a business that wants to harvest as much coin off of their decade's old player base. Sorry Blizz but if you want to keep you loyal players, go back to the old way of making games. Games that have substance and not microtransactions, back to having actual engaging story to make the character feel invested, not the so far predictable drivel that is in D4. Go back to designing games and story in the way that built your loyal player base, but I fear that you are too far gone.… Expand
  18. Lumberjack87
    Aug 13, 2023
    1
    good:
    -story
    - the first 30ish levels of progress bad: - empty world - a lot of backtracking - if you didn't like bounties in D3 prepare yourself, they are the only activity now, both in the open world and in dungeons (which replaced nephalim rifts) - lag - pvp is completely busted - world events happen on a real life timer, so you better adjust your real life schedule or you'll    good:
    -story
    - the first 30ish levels of progress

    bad:
    - empty world
    - a lot of backtracking
    - if you didn't like bounties in D3 prepare yourself, they are the only activity now, both in the open world and in dungeons (which replaced nephalim rifts)
    - lag
    - pvp is completely busted
    - world events happen on a real life timer, so you better adjust your real life schedule or you'll miss out, you can't do activities when you want like in previous diablo games
    - legendaries are boring and barely have synergy
    - items have too many of basically the same stats (+dmg in 20 different flavors)
    - no set items and only like 6 unique items per class
    - experimenting with builds is actively discouraged as the prices for changing skills goes up exponentially and seemingly infinitely

    whoever can remember how bad D3 was in the beginning when it had the real money auction house as the sole avenue to gear up, D4 feels just as bad even without the auction house    … Expand
  19. Val9000
    Aug 13, 2023
    5
    It's an early access incomplete game loaded with predatory cash grabs systems. Due to connectivity and increase of player base globally AAA devs can make a $buck$ and get away with it, blizzard needs to go trough a trial by fire as future looks bright for indie studios armed with AI tools will be able to release amazing games without 7 layers of management and marketing department callingIt's an early access incomplete game loaded with predatory cash grabs systems. Due to connectivity and increase of player base globally AAA devs can make a $buck$ and get away with it, blizzard needs to go trough a trial by fire as future looks bright for indie studios armed with AI tools will be able to release amazing games without 7 layers of management and marketing department calling of shots.… Expand
  20. lowk
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    This game tricked everyone. Make the early game amazing, pay off Critic Reviews. Doesn't hide the fact its a garbage game from a selfish company. People spend more time messing with lack of inventory space than playing.
  21. Demeross
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    game lack content there is no endgame,grind become more and more boring im done and season 1 is compleatly trash
  22. franhuen
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad patches and blizzard wont listen to players conmment. They just nerf and fix the bugs and wont think about the reason of why so many players use the bugs… Expand
  23. Marko1312
    Aug 7, 2023
    0
    one of the worst games I've played of this type.. the itemization is a disaster, there is no endgame, the only thing you will do afterwards is play the same nightmare dungeons, against almost always the same boss who has no mechanics.. the game does everything to slow you down , weak xp, in the cities the vendors are too far from each other, you will spend a lot of time running from oneone of the worst games I've played of this type.. the itemization is a disaster, there is no endgame, the only thing you will do afterwards is play the same nightmare dungeons, against almost always the same boss who has no mechanics.. the game does everything to slow you down , weak xp, in the cities the vendors are too far from each other, you will spend a lot of time running from one vendor to another.. even in dungeons they want to slow you down with their stupid affixes.. the horse is very difficult to control, it gets stuck on every obstacle, it has a cooldown.. the only good thing in this game is the graphics and the open world.. blizzard sold people an unfinished game and should be ashamed, this game doesn't even deserve a zero rating...… Expand
  24. frozka88
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    The developers have made not a bad storyline, after which there is absolutely nothing to do in the game. If you release a game that has nothing to do after 15 hours, why such a high price? Why sell a bunch of cosmetic items and battle passes? You spent a lot of money on marketing, songs hitting Eilish, popular streamers, to advertise a dummy. Where is the multiplayer content you promised?The developers have made not a bad storyline, after which there is absolutely nothing to do in the game. If you release a game that has nothing to do after 15 hours, why such a high price? Why sell a bunch of cosmetic items and battle passes? You spent a lot of money on marketing, songs hitting Eilish, popular streamers, to advertise a dummy. Where is the multiplayer content you promised? And yes, we will not forget the joint with Shako.… Expand
  25. Scarecr0wn
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters,    The onle enjoyable part of this game is the main story. Enjoyable, that does not mean great. The second point I am giving it is for the art style, that is also.. good.
    Otherwise Blizzard, as is now expected from them, ruined literally everything about this game. The first season should have been the big "Hey, come here! We have so much fun for you!". Instead they broke all characters, builds, they made it insanely repetetive (and not in fun grind way), they introduced the dumbest seasonal mechanic I have ever seen in live service game and now they are apparently releasing hyper politically correct videos about a "dev" playing the game where she dies on WT1 dungeon spamming the 1 basic ability and acting like it´s the best, most complex game she ever played.
    Blizzard is dead. Deadest.    … Expand
  26. zephrr86
    Aug 13, 2023
    8
    The people have spoken but they are wrong. Nothing about this game deserves lower than a 7 out of 10. Hyperbolic internet culture on full display. D4 is a fine game only issues that bug me are QOL issues that will hopefully be resolved sooner than later but thats all
  27. amicus20
    Aug 13, 2023
    7
    As a life long Diablo fan, I was super hyped for Diablo 4. Diablo 2 may be my most played game of all time. I didn't like Diablo 3 at first but they fixed it over the years and, while it wasn't as good as Diablo 2, it ended up being solid. Diablo 2 Resurrected was fantastic. That said, Diablo 4 just doesn't live up to the hype. The campaign was great and I enjoyed the story. The combatAs a life long Diablo fan, I was super hyped for Diablo 4. Diablo 2 may be my most played game of all time. I didn't like Diablo 3 at first but they fixed it over the years and, while it wasn't as good as Diablo 2, it ended up being solid. Diablo 2 Resurrected was fantastic. That said, Diablo 4 just doesn't live up to the hype. The campaign was great and I enjoyed the story. The combat and skill system is pretty solid. But man, the endgame and loot is not great. The foundation is good, and I'm confident Blizzard will fix it over time, but why not release a complete game at launch?… Expand
  28. Derbernd
    Aug 13, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ich war nach 25 Stunden durch die campain und alles danach is eigentlich nur noch das ein und selbe dungoen immer und immer wieder machennich hab lange auf ein diablo2 gewartet was an diablo 2 rankommt aber das hier is es definitiv nicht Die angeblich 200 dungoens sind nur 15-20 die einfach copy Paste über die ganze map verteilt sind und das fühlt sich nicht nur so an das ist auch so
    Die Bosse später sind auch nicht wirklich herausfordernd sogar uber nicht Dann dieser überlegung komm wir machen jetzt die nightmare dungoens level 100 für die nächsten 6 seasons schon mal aber was die Leute nach dem ersten Season Start oder nach dem Leveln machen scheiss egal … die können ja was anderes spielen is ja kein spiel das man länger spielen sollte für 120€ in der teuersten Edition Und der eigentliche Witz kommt jetzt ich hab 350+ in dem Spiel und hab noch nicht mal jemanden mit nem shako oder einem von den Entwicklern gezeigtes uniqe GESEHEN nicht ich hab keins ich hab bis jetzt niemanden gesehen der eins hat und das ist ganz ehrlich ne üble sauerrei in der Zeit hätte ich bei dia2 n Magier ne amazone und noch n Pala halb aufgebaut klar nicht auf 100 beide allerhöchstens auf 80 aber da hätte wenigstenseiner n shako 100%
    Es ist einfach nur simple hinhalte Taktik mal schauen wie lang se sich die scheisse noch geben und das ist ziemlich übler scheiss find ich Diesen hate von den POE entwicklern kann ich zwar auch nicht verstehen POE ist in meinen Augen noch viel üblerer Schrott aber Ich hoffe das dieses Baldurs Gate mal die Leute wach rüttelt und mal wieder zum normal denken bringt und nicht blind jeden scheiss zu kaufen so wie ich dieses Mal wieder    … Expand
  29. Multani
    Aug 13, 2023
    0
    Pure garbage but nothing new from blizzard games. They only live from the past and look for fast money. All their games are souless
  30. lazyyawn2
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Path of Exile doesnt even need to invest in advertising, this game did it for free.

    This game has literally no endgame, fundamental defensive mechanics dont work (resistances), Dungeons are boring, with boring quests inside them in order to complete, layouts are trash in most of them, and the gearing and glyph system is very shallow and boring.
  31. SteveOnMetacrit
    Aug 12, 2023
    6
    The game feels NOTHING like Diablo 1 or 2. I played the campaign through five times and almost all the side quests twice, skipping the campaign only twice on the way to 50+ level characters, but I probably should have only played it once with a single character and stopped. The endgame seems pointless. I was having an easy time with a 71st level character, but leveling higher felt boring.The game feels NOTHING like Diablo 1 or 2. I played the campaign through five times and almost all the side quests twice, skipping the campaign only twice on the way to 50+ level characters, but I probably should have only played it once with a single character and stopped. The endgame seems pointless. I was having an easy time with a 71st level character, but leveling higher felt boring. There is NO story.

    The campaign is OK but very dark. For example, you walk past almost as many human torture-victim corpses as the total enemies you encounter. On the other hand, I sort of liked that maybe 40% of the side-quests had sad endings - that seemed like a brave decision on the part of the developers.

    It's quite difficult to find co-op partners, partly because there is so much to do specifically for one's own character, but mostly because Blizzard seemed to put almost no effort into matchmaking.

    The Legion events where one joins a PUG to fight several consecutive hordes of enemies are fun, but the world bosses seem boring after you've completed a couple. The Hell-Tide events are OK; the first few are quite fun. Solo dungeons are repetitive.

    There is a certain amount of satisfaction in slowly figuring out how to (relatively) quickly assess which of the endless stream of looted items are worth using, but that's the main problem with the game - it's 50% administration: picking up loot, sorting loot, salvaging loot, rolling to change one enhancement to a piece of loot, looking through your large bonus magic runes to decide which to add to a new piece of loot. All this is done, of course, at NPC's that are several seconds walk apart from each other. It pays off in power - I've heard of some people who died frequently, whereas I never had much trouble completing anything. Because I paused to pick the best loot and upgrade it correctly. But all in all, I would have preferred not to play a game that included so much administration. Solo or co-op, the game should be mostly fighting.

    My first play through would probably rate a 7.5; my final experiences with the game were about a 3.    … Expand
  32. Glau
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Blizzard don’t listen community. Completely trash. No end game,Don't waste your money.
  33. exion89
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    I have been using metacritic for like 10 years. I never EVER found it necessary to create an account to rate a game until now. **** blizzard, **** bobby kotick, MS made a huge mistake buying this company. Blizzard is a husk of what it once was. Diablo 4 came out and was amazing. But they found out how to completely destroy it.. gg
  34. TheM3ss
    Aug 12, 2023
    2
    I've played all the diablo games so far.

    Diablo was innovative for the time, fun to play, and the look and feel made the game unique. Diablo 2 expanded on some things, added some other things, and it was an even better game, improving the formula of the first one. Diablo 3 was dumpster fire all the way till the reaper of souls, when it continued to be a dumpster, but somehow blizzard    I've played all the diablo games so far.

    Diablo was innovative for the time, fun to play, and the look and feel made the game unique. Diablo 2 expanded on some things, added some other things, and it was an even better game, improving the formula of the first one. Diablo 3 was dumpster fire all the way till the reaper of souls, when it continued to be a dumpster, but somehow blizzard put out the fire... it stinks less but its still garbage.

    Diablo 4 only has 2 things from the original games, the diablo look and feel that's about it. It looks like diablo, sounds like diablo but it doesnt play like diablo in any way. The excess of sufixes, the crap loot, the bad storage, the rubber banding, the bad patches, the boring and repetitive WE, the crap dungeons that are always the "same".

    The dungeons are always about one of these things, and are divided in two halfs, in which you have to do the same crap all over and over game. It's always a mix of something like: slay all enemies open a door that was sealed, then get some crapy items ( 1 or 2, or even 3 or 4 ) to unseal another door ( among other things like free 6 prisioners or whatever, etc. Its always a random 2 things to do on every dungeon, repetitve, boring and unfulfilling.

    The paragon points and hability points system are bad, but it could be worse i guess.

    For a game that the main focus is item looting, the lack of decent storage, the non stackable hearts for the current season that just fill out the very limited storage its just appaling... how the heck did they think this would be ok?

    So basicly diablo 4 is a empty husk of a game and, and tbh i had already decided that this would be the last game i would spend money on from blizzard, unless it proved me wrong by actually being a good game, which it isnt.

    If like me, youre looking for a good rpg to play, look somewhere else, diablo 4 is not worth anyones money, and honestly, i dont like to pay to be a beta tester, because thats what everyone playing diablo 4 is, do not make the same mistake i did and many others, and stay away from blizzard, since they are killing their franchises left and right just to line up their pockets with your hard earned cash.    … Expand
  35. bruthor
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    A great game that challenges the dev on World Tier1, truly masterpiece made by extremely entetaining dev play video
  36. SolitaryGamer
    Aug 12, 2023
    3
    Bought it launch week after some of the server issues got resolved. The game looks fine and mechanically it played like other games clogging up my Steam Library. But there in lies the problem, this game didn't do anything particularly better than any other games I own. After a while I lost interest. The gameplay loop, loot, environments, and story just don't do enough to keep you invested.Bought it launch week after some of the server issues got resolved. The game looks fine and mechanically it played like other games clogging up my Steam Library. But there in lies the problem, this game didn't do anything particularly better than any other games I own. After a while I lost interest. The gameplay loop, loot, environments, and story just don't do enough to keep you invested. I stopped playing back in June, the game resting on version 4932. Save your money.… Expand
  37. Chronfox
    Jul 20, 2023
    0
    Terrible. The only good things about this game are the art, cutscenes, and animations. The rest is trash, especially itemization and build variety. The devs have no clue what they’re doing. It’s obvious the blizzard I grew up with is dead. Wish I could get a refund. Only worth 30-40 bucks max.
  38. Sinabuns
    Aug 12, 2023
    6
    I think in a year or two this game will be much better, like the other Diablo games.
  39. Griddz
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Unacceptable. You had all the knowledge of previous Diablos plus all the knowledge from every other arpg for the last 10 years and THIS is what we got?? It's insulting and watching the newest dev playthrough on the official youtube channel tells us everything. Devs just spamming basic attacks with full resource, dying on WT1 in a normal dungeon.....
  40. PR9Gaming
    Aug 12, 2023
    5
    Cute if you've never played an arpg before and will actually take time to go through the campaign, but utterly useless to anyone that's played one before. PoE blows it out of the water and both Diablo 2 and 3 have better systems/progression/etc. Blizzard cares way more about microtransactions than making fun games these days.
  41. TLOU2ISGARBAGE
    Aug 12, 2023
    1
    Blizzard....what happened to you? What happened to the company that we loved, respected and cheered for? What happened to the company that gave us Lost Vikings, Warcraft-Orcs vs. Humans, and the original World of Warcraft?

    What happened to the passionate devs that made games we would line up at midnight on release date to get? I never thought I would write this about the company    Blizzard....what happened to you? What happened to the company that we loved, respected and cheered for? What happened to the company that gave us Lost Vikings, Warcraft-Orcs vs. Humans, and the original World of Warcraft?

    What happened to the passionate devs that made games we would line up at midnight on release date to get?

    I never thought I would write this about the company that gave us Diablo 2, but Diablo IV is a transaction ridden unfun slog.

    Disgusting company with disgusting management making disgusting "games".

    RIP Blizzard. You don't exist to me anymore.    … Expand
  42. Madlet
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    After the release of season 1, Diablo 4 has experienced a decline in quality, along with Blizzard's deteriorating business practices. The game appears to have been intentionally designed to consume excessive amounts of time, resulting in various tedious aspects. It seems that Blizzard lacks respect for both its customers and players, and perhaps they should be treated with the same levelAfter the release of season 1, Diablo 4 has experienced a decline in quality, along with Blizzard's deteriorating business practices. The game appears to have been intentionally designed to consume excessive amounts of time, resulting in various tedious aspects. It seems that Blizzard lacks respect for both its customers and players, and perhaps they should be treated with the same level of respect they display.… Expand
  43. MrJPrime
    Jun 9, 2023
    0
    The game is a stuttering mess on 2 of my 3 pcs. That plus the always online requirements are big issues. I am in a place with spotty wifi so I can't play a game I paid for..... Kinda bs thus down to a 5
    The cosmetics are obscenely expensive like 25 bucks. With all that it's amazing at launch and will only get better.
    After the updates and all the bs I deserve a refund. Oh well instead    The game is a stuttering mess on 2 of my 3 pcs. That plus the always online requirements are big issues. I am in a place with spotty wifi so I can't play a game I paid for..... Kinda bs thus down to a 5
    The cosmetics are obscenely expensive like 25 bucks. With all that it's amazing at launch and will only get better.

    After the updates and all the bs I deserve a refund. Oh well instead your game gets a zero... Fix it...    … Expand
  44. SarkusRedcom
    Aug 12, 2023
    1
    Un juego lleno de microtransacciones (no necesarias) arruinan la experiencia del juego y deja en claro que la empresa solo le importa el dinero.

    Sacaron EDICIONES de juego que incluian contenido extra, un pase de batalla, niveles, etc. Cuando salio el juego, no te daban absolutamente nada extra por haberte gastado mas de 100 dolares en una edicion especial. Una total estafa las    Un juego lleno de microtransacciones (no necesarias) arruinan la experiencia del juego y deja en claro que la empresa solo le importa el dinero.

    Sacaron EDICIONES de juego que incluian contenido extra, un pase de batalla, niveles, etc.
    Cuando salio el juego, no te daban absolutamente nada extra por haberte gastado mas de 100 dolares en una edicion especial. Una total estafa las ediciones. (El pase salio 1 o 2 meses despues, pero ya es tarde por que perdi el interes en el juego.

    La historia la verdad no es para nada divertida, cada capitulo lo mismo una y otra vez,
    Un final predecible y generico.

    Soy un veterano de Diablo 3.
    La verdad perdi la confianza en Blizzard con este juego, es una total decepcion.    … Expand
  45. VACTUS
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    The game is terrible, Microtransactions. Terrible gameplay loop. You reach a point where you continuously ask yourself why you are playing the game... there is no point. Whenever you level up enemies' level with you. Because of this you feel just as strong when you were in level 1, there is no point. The game is a hot mess, and I want my money back!
  46. moorcool33
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    A great team, when we think they won't make the same mistake again, but they still make the same mistake! A game that doesn't even count as a semi-finished product!
  47. poltik
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Terrible company that bans you for finding out their bugs. Like people are constantly exploiting with dungeon resets, gold, boosting, etc. And you guys have the audacity to ban your players when you should be punishing your @@#tty quality assurance team. Literally losing hundreds of hours and $$$ on a game cause one day you guys think we are so called "exploiting" when its a clear bug inTerrible company that bans you for finding out their bugs. Like people are constantly exploiting with dungeon resets, gold, boosting, etc. And you guys have the audacity to ban your players when you should be punishing your @@#tty quality assurance team. Literally losing hundreds of hours and $$$ on a game cause one day you guys think we are so called "exploiting" when its a clear bug in the game.

    Will never recommend a blizzard game to anyone, fraud company, just don't play their games honestly horrible company and people inside.    … Expand
  48. Ubersnacks
    Aug 12, 2023
    3
    It feels like they have made an experience where they hold the players hand all the way through to make sure that the player never really fails, they put you in a shopping cart and throw you a chocolate bun and asks you what class and skill you want to use, and then they push you around the mall and throws the items at you that matches your build. + all the extra **** you have to salvageIt feels like they have made an experience where they hold the players hand all the way through to make sure that the player never really fails, they put you in a shopping cart and throw you a chocolate bun and asks you what class and skill you want to use, and then they push you around the mall and throws the items at you that matches your build. + all the extra **** you have to salvage once you get home from your boring day at the mall with a shopping cart that kept getting stuck on all corners.

    The good:
    Graphics
    Gameplay/Combat the smoothness of it(Except the horse, the horse feels... well special)
    Story was pretty decent, since most Arpgs are not really story driven.
    cutscenes were amazing.

    The bad
    Itemization
    Stash
    Stats
    Paragon board
    Horse
    Skill tree
    endgame
    No trading, well there is rare trading, but who the hell really does that? gotta be the minority

    Feels so bad to have a game that removes any kind of chances to fail and only wants you to succeed.
    If there is no way to fail, why should successes ever feel great?
    And with them praising the amount of customization option you have, it sure feels limiting and hand held.
    At no point in my play-through both in none season and in season did i feel unique and special, at no point did i feel like i found an item which made me go "oh my god, i want to switch build or create a new class to try this out."

    I guess this is just how it is these days with most studios, they develop with money in mind, instead of creating a masterpiece, that will still generate lots of money and most importantly, make them popular, which makes people eager to see their next big thing.
    Blizzard sure has been on a downwards trend since activision brought them.    … Expand
  49. angelsky0303
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Very polished campaign to fool outlets into giving the game high scores
    -Extremely grindy. Far more so than the previous games. It's like they took everything they learned from Diablo 3, threw away that knowledge, and decided to make the same mistakes again.
    -They took the kinds of RNG that people hated in D3, and increased it 10x. -Utterly stupid endgame design. Imagine world of    Very polished campaign to fool outlets into giving the game high scores
    -Extremely grindy. Far more so than the previous games. It's like they took everything they learned from Diablo 3, threw away that knowledge, and decided to make the same mistakes again.
    -They took the kinds of RNG that people hated in D3, and increased it 10x.
    -Utterly stupid endgame design. Imagine world of warcraft dailies and world quests being the only activity, but your gear self-destructs and needs to be replaced every week for no reason    … Expand
  50. e2984
    Aug 12, 2023
    2
    Only good things are the moderately entertaining campaign and the excellent voice acting of the major characters.

    Everything else, basically what makes this a "game", is unfinished, unbalanced garbage from the rotting corpse of what once an iconic game developer. I've played every major title that Blizzard has released, every Warcraft, every Starcraft, every Diablo, WoW, and this is    Only good things are the moderately entertaining campaign and the excellent voice acting of the major characters.

    Everything else, basically what makes this a "game", is unfinished, unbalanced garbage from the rotting corpse of what once an iconic game developer.

    I've played every major title that Blizzard has released, every Warcraft, every Starcraft, every Diablo, WoW, and this is really just the last game I'll ever be buying from "Blizzard."

    Wanna play an ARPG, other much better games put there worth your money.

    Interested in the story? Just watch it on youtube or on someone's stream. These guys don't deserve your money.    … Expand
  51. DinboNomad2z2
    Aug 12, 2023
    1
    What's the point of playing this game? There's no sense of progression. Everything scales to your level which means your combat feels pretty much the same through out the entire story which seems to be how they've added the MMO elements to allow people to play with other people.
  52. tonymei999
    Aug 12, 2023
    0
    Game was good at launch with minor bugs, but it was fun. They patched the game and nerfed a whole lot of things prior to the launch of the new season. I was disheartened reading the patch notes, but I gave the game a chance. I made 2 characters for the season and leveled them decently, and it was a significantly terrible experience compared to the launch. The game itself has becomeGame was good at launch with minor bugs, but it was fun. They patched the game and nerfed a whole lot of things prior to the launch of the new season. I was disheartened reading the patch notes, but I gave the game a chance. I made 2 characters for the season and leveled them decently, and it was a significantly terrible experience compared to the launch. The game itself has become borderline unplayable and definitely no longer any fun.… Expand
  53. TsaiJY
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    If you haven't bought the game, please don't
    Because you don't want to play a malicious game with random changes
  54. dreamgti
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    I mean if blizzard did something with their **** servers and fixed latency and bugs I might give this a good review. sadly the company/devs cannot do much. too brain dead I guess
  55. Conkortt
    Aug 11, 2023
    1
    The company managed to frustrate me in every possible way, in everything that was fun for me, they ended it and made the game worse and worse with each update, this last season I was doing a poison rogue and out of nowhere they nerfed the poison and the cooldowns of a passive that applies poison imbuing, last season the frustration was with the mage that they nerfed and they didn't listenThe company managed to frustrate me in every possible way, in everything that was fun for me, they ended it and made the game worse and worse with each update, this last season I was doing a poison rogue and out of nowhere they nerfed the poison and the cooldowns of a passive that applies poison imbuing, last season the frustration was with the mage that they nerfed and they didn't listen to anyone from the community who was writing powerful reviews on the blizzard forums, and it's dangerous for the guy to get banned from the forum for expose the truth, the worst purchases i made this year was buying the two games from activision blizzard, diablo 4
    and call of duty mw2, the chinese from tencent with poe are putting these guys to suck, so sad about having to write this, but I had to say the truth about the game and about this company, they don't care for customer care, customer opinion, that's by this reasons that we customers are not going back to this **** game they made, d4    … Expand
  56. crazy54637
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    The BLIZZARD is hiring ChatGPT to optimize the system, the 1.1.2 patch is a piece of shxt! Removing all gameplay mechanisms that benefit players, nice try
  57. WarlordBK
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    The boss fights in this game are absolutely pathetic, the bosses are weaker than trash mobs in the literal same dungeon.
    Overall game difficulty is also a pathetic joke past level 30
    Item drop rates and amount are way too high making finding new items uninteresting, Especially since items scale to some weird item level based on your level. Damage Numbers are through the roof    The boss fights in this game are absolutely pathetic, the bosses are weaker than trash mobs in the literal same dungeon.
    Overall game difficulty is also a pathetic joke past level 30
    Item drop rates and amount are way too high making finding new items uninteresting,
    Especially since items scale to some weird item level based on your level.

    Damage Numbers are through the roof
    Dungeons are basically guided narrow passages with no exploration
    The world map is shown as a bunch of paths leaving no mystery for exploring the open world, you always know exactly where to go.

    Story telling was great but many parts of the story were terrible, from comedic lines whilst fighting for our lives in hell, laughing at witty neyrelle comments outside a dungeon covered in blood and dead people lying around - theres a time and place for humour.

    Itemization is pretty damn terrible, not alot of depth in build customization "play your way" and "endless build possibilities" are blatant lies.

    There are many positives about diablo 4 and the game has great potential if they make certain changes.    … Expand
  58. epi17
    Aug 11, 2023
    1
    Very big game, but after you level your 1st character at 60 or so, there's not much to do, you just run the same dungeons over and over. In theory there should be multiple builds for each character, but the internal balance is poor.

    Add to that the constant nerfing patches and the annoying server problems and it's a very sub-par experience.
  59. basicb
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60 Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with    Giving it a score of 2. 1 point for dog that can be pet, and 1 point for the quality of the cutscenes.
    Never been so unhappy with a purchase, and going forward will not be purchasing Blizzard/Activision games. Below is a list in no particular order of things I'm not happy about:
    Price (70+) - For reference, Baldur's gate 3 released at $60
    Itemization - Wayy too many useless stats with too specific requirements to utilize
    Getting one shot too often: My partner gets one shot wayyy too often on Barbarian. Only reason I survive is keeping my distance on Necromancer and making my pets tank.
    The huge nerf: Contributes to above issue, and has made killing bosses take far more time than necessary. Post survivability nerfs, my necromancer feels even more like a glass cannon
    Drop rates: Season 1 has quests to complete which require you to get an item with a 3% drop rate from a crafted box item, that had no other way to acquire it until a recent hotfix basically letting everyone know they had the drop rate at 3% and bumped it up to 15%. Absolutely no reason for that low of a drop rate to begin with. Absolutely a huge middle finger to their players.
    Legendaries: I feel no happiness from finding legendary drops anymore. They have turned into aspects only and nothing really special about them anymore. The aspects just take up so much space.
    No real crafting: Can craft potions and some of the seasonal mechanic items. No gear crafting
    Price of premium currency: Intentionally set the price point so you either have to buy 2 of a cheaper pack and have too much currency, or 1 of a more expensive pack and... still have leftover currency with no way to use it (nothing cheap enough)
    Season pass doesn't provide enough premium currency to purchase next pass. Actually doesn't provide you enough to do much of anything with.
    Performance: Servers still feel Beta quality with lots of rubberbanding unless I play at non-peak times to avoid this.
    Horses: Still bugged where if I mount my horse in town and exit town, more often than not I can't use my speed boost (bugged out). Have to dismount the horse and wait 10 seconds, then mount again. Also 10 second wait to mount horse again or 30 seconds if you get hit too much and knocked off.
    Uniques: Only found 1 that was good enough to use. The rest seem somewhat uninspired and underwhelming
    Skills: Skills feel underwhelming, and the modifiers you can level up for a skill feel like they could have just been folded into the skill and provide the bonuses as you level a skill up. The modifiers should have let you change the skill like in Diablo 3 where I can turn say Spirit Barrage from a channeled attack to an AOE, or to a summon type skill to suit my build and play style.
    Leveling: Takes so long for no reason except to extend game time. Recently played Diablo 3 again and I can get from 1-70 in a single day. Maybe find a happy medium between a single day and the current slog fest. They even nerfed the ability to power level your friends just to make it take even longer.
    Almost every change since Season 1 has been designed to extend the time it takes to accomplish anything. Before Season 1, it wasn't the best, but it's gone considerably downhill.    … Expand
  60. Fukushimiste
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    I didn't see a studio which is killing himself so much, even Ubisoft, or EA are currently better than this **** of studio
  61. Riley11
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    Not a game worth playing. Did not meet the standards and expectations set by Baldur's Gate 3.
  62. Fausthor
    Aug 11, 2023
    5
    A fleeting experience that starts great, but quickly collapses upon itself. The game starts great, feeling like what Diablo 3 should always have been, a Diablo II but vastly improved. Sadly, the game quickly folds into a repetitive (not in the good Diablo way) and bug infested experience, made worse with continued patches that seems to take away the little fun the game can offer. AddA fleeting experience that starts great, but quickly collapses upon itself. The game starts great, feeling like what Diablo 3 should always have been, a Diablo II but vastly improved. Sadly, the game quickly folds into a repetitive (not in the good Diablo way) and bug infested experience, made worse with continued patches that seems to take away the little fun the game can offer. Add microtransactions and a battle pass scheme to a full priced game, and you got the recipe for a game rushing to be forgotten.… Expand
  63. MadDogHux
    Aug 11, 2023
    4
    The best part of the game is cinematics. I won't visit the game again until all the patches and DLC are done because it's annoying to have the goal posts moved constantly.

    Audio 10/10 As always. Cinematics 10/10 Easily the best part of the game when combined with the audio and the pretty graphics. Story 6/10 Same **** different color. That said, I really enjoyed the cinematics    The best part of the game is cinematics. I won't visit the game again until all the patches and DLC are done because it's annoying to have the goal posts moved constantly.

    Audio 10/10
    As always.

    Cinematics 10/10
    Easily the best part of the game when combined with the audio and the pretty graphics.

    Story 6/10
    Same **** different color. That said, I really enjoyed the cinematics and they help really drive the story home. A higher score would be given if they really broke the mold here.

    Combat 0/10
    Uninspired is the best I can put it. You will NOT get your God-fix here.

    Gameplay 3/10
    Combat is boring AF and the rest... is just there for you to grind. While I am okay with this, it is just a bunch of tasks and collectibles and rarely add to the story or offer any fun game mechanics. I'd kill for some minigames or puzzle at this point, but we got Alters of Lilith instead.

    Looting is also awful as most items that drop are completely useless with conflicting attributes for any synergy and Blizzard accomplished this by adding more attributes and just letting RNG ruin everything.

    Quests were actually fun and enrich the story and experience.

    Social 1/10
    It's supposed to feel like an MMO and it does this well. I love endless hack-n-slash dungeon crawlers with the ability to push the limits and go a little deeper each time to gain just a little power. But Diablo IV is now an MMO with endless tasks (not quests) to do and it feel less like a dungeon crawler.

    Graphics 8/10
    Pretty but definitely just high-res Diablo stuff which is underwhelming. I'm also removing points for investing so much into the skins and horses meanwhile using said horse will cause massive lag.

    Technical 0/10
    This is me being petty because the horses are lag factories & every time I find something I like about the game they patch it out. Favorite dungeon? Gone. Favorite skill? Nerfed. Favorite Attribute? Nerfed. Favorite boss fight? Reduced rewards. I know they gave that whole, "We'll never make a game altering mechanic like vulnerability again" speech, but I don't trust them.    … Expand
  64. davides
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    Este juego es bueno,incluso divertido,hasta que quieres farmear una build en especifico,la cual requiere en mi casa un único espécifico.
    Tengo 2 druidas a nivel 89 me he tirado haciendo target farming de este item sin exagerar semanas,rusheando mazmorras de manera enfermiza,NUNCA me ha llegado a caer JAMAS con ninguno de mis dos druidas.
    Esto es una autentica basura una perdida de    Este juego es bueno,incluso divertido,hasta que quieres farmear una build en especifico,la cual requiere en mi casa un único espécifico.
    Tengo 2 druidas a nivel 89 me he tirado haciendo target farming de este item sin exagerar semanas,rusheando mazmorras de manera enfermiza,NUNCA me ha llegado a caer JAMAS con ninguno de mis dos druidas.
    Esto es una autentica basura una perdida de tiempo infame y lamentable,pasas cientos de horas para conseguir una build donde de todas esas horas no aprovechas absolutamente NADA.
    No se que minimo que dar unos polvos o algo al deshacer otros legendarios y que despues de unos cuantos tu puedas elegir en un vendedor cual quieres y gastar estos polvos en comrparlos.
    Es que literalmente he roto mas de 1.000 legendarios una autentica burrada de horas perdidas.
    Por mi parte los personajes están borrados y el juego desinstalado.

    Honestamente no compreis esta basura es lametable el tiempo y la cantidad de horas que vais a deshechar para nada.    … Expand
  65. Xen0_0
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
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  66. ElevenX
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    Great game to make you fall asleep after getting back from work. Instead of improving the gameplay, they are nerfing everything because things are too powerful and players are leveling up too fast. They are actively looking at ways to slow down progression to force players to spend more time on the game. Massive dungeons filled with emptiness, enter and walk through several empty roomsGreat game to make you fall asleep after getting back from work. Instead of improving the gameplay, they are nerfing everything because things are too powerful and players are leveling up too fast. They are actively looking at ways to slow down progression to force players to spend more time on the game. Massive dungeons filled with emptiness, enter and walk through several empty rooms before you start seeing monsters. Dungeon layout forces you to run to far corners and back. It's practically a MMO Running Simulator. See that shiny shrine, or chest? Most of them are cursed and spawn 1 minute of mobs before you can use them.. Buffs are weaker than your skills and you can't cancel them. Run out of potions and you find a potion well? Surprise! Deal with 1 minute waves of monsters to top off your potions! Died in a dungeon? There is a 3 seconds cool down for the respawn button to be active. and the respawn point is more than a 30 seconds walk back.. Mechanics such as shielded bosses and perma-stun elites are extremely dumb and a further waste of time. Loot is extremely punishing and unrewarding. Most chests are a waste of time to open. It's becoming too much of a drag to play.

    They seem to forget that some players want to play multiple classes.    … Expand
  67. Saltingham
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    This seems to have been rushed out unpolished and appears to be a pure milk the users of cash rather than make a good fun game. being online only especially with Hardcore mode and the amount of disconects is a poor move. Still making sweeping changes months into the game release we have basically paid full price to be part of a beta test and have the shop constantly glow to try draw us inThis seems to have been rushed out unpolished and appears to be a pure milk the users of cash rather than make a good fun game. being online only especially with Hardcore mode and the amount of disconects is a poor move. Still making sweeping changes months into the game release we have basically paid full price to be part of a beta test and have the shop constantly glow to try draw us in to pay £20 for a very average looking skin. SHAME SHAME SHAME is all you can say to what used to be a publisher who gave us very rich and polished games… Expand
  68. Berenkeutel
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    No I am not your Alpha tester. The only good thing about this game is the cinematics. They could've easily make it a great game by implementing the Diablo 3 RoS systems, but instead made it a laggy boring time sink mess.
  69. Featherspeed
    Aug 11, 2023
    2
    Season 1 took the potential and changed the future of the game and made it exponentially worse that diablo 3 is now
  70. retropacman
    Aug 11, 2023
    0
    Season one sucks. At release I loved the game and got my money's worth of entertainment. When they nurfed everything it took all that time I spent on my character and threw it in the trash. I will no longer be playing this game. I am done.
  71. MBlade76
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Awesome looking game with almost no content to speak of. Main campain and story is somewhat ok, but there are literally no middle, or endgame activities just the dungeons and the tree quests. Feel of power and progress is subpar. Levelling is slow and extremely boring. Game mechanics are unfun and punishing. The loot is subpar, there is nothing noteworthy to grind for. The developers are disconnected from the community. Overall bad game design. The whole game is a big cash grab. In its current state it's not recommended. The old Blizzard is really dead now! The IP is beyond saving.… Expand
  72. arkantos869
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    This game felt great when I first got it and was leveling through it with friends. I was never a huge Diablo player, but had played diablo 3 quite a bit and had recently started a Diablo 2 playthrough. The combat in the ACTION RPG is very very slow and once you finally get through the main story and get max level. There is absolutely nothing to do. I may update this review later, but atThis game felt great when I first got it and was leveling through it with friends. I was never a huge Diablo player, but had played diablo 3 quite a bit and had recently started a Diablo 2 playthrough. The combat in the ACTION RPG is very very slow and once you finally get through the main story and get max level. There is absolutely nothing to do. I may update this review later, but at this time, avoid this game until they fix it like D3.… Expand
  73. victini9
    Aug 10, 2023
    8
    Fun in about first 100 hours playtime, then it is boring , all same things over and over again
  74. Heikki
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Unfortunately, this is not a good game. We were led to believe this would've been different, and that we would have been treated decently but Blizzard led us astray yet again. This game is probably the last nail in the coffin of this franchise, after the diablo immoral fiasco.
  75. DrCoconuties
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    I have been a gamer for most of my life. In fact, 1 year away from 20 years playing video games. This is the only game I have ever played in my entire life where I fell asleep midgame. I am being beyond serious. I have played numerous ARPGs before, including Diablo, yet Diablo 4 makes me jolt awake when I die because my brain has picked up the sound changes. Terrible game.
  76. Noahyen
    Aug 10, 2023
    1
    when you first start playing is extremely exciting because you're dealing with the new character with new skills new spells new stats all that cool stuff. but once you start playing for a couple of hours start to realize that it gets a little repetitive. once you make it to tier 3 you start to see all of the same uniques over and over and over again. don't get me wrong you can make anwhen you first start playing is extremely exciting because you're dealing with the new character with new skills new spells new stats all that cool stuff. but once you start playing for a couple of hours start to realize that it gets a little repetitive. once you make it to tier 3 you start to see all of the same uniques over and over and over again. don't get me wrong you can make an incredible build with it. however you keep seeing the same stuff over and over so you're hoping to get a better stat item which is really hard to get even with the re-rolls system, which is dangerously ridiculous. not only for the amount that cost in materials and gold for the stat item that you get in return is almost Criminal. if this is Diablo IV and the game style and play that were used to of jewels Ruby's runes all of that that should have been in the game on the get-go. there should not have been a patch to Nerf anything and that's where they blew it. they should focus on the systems that don't work like resistances. and the role system when you reroll an item. There's so many things that are broken and wrong with this game and it had so much potential. I would wait for the price to go down if you're thinking about purchasing. I don't have it on here… Expand
  77. Voro123
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Long time fan of the series, absolutely dissapointed. All "additions" to this game fail to relate into meaningful content. Expected content missing (rune/runewords, set items, actually unique uniques), all the things that make Diablo, Diablo.
  78. ikon_zero
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    It's like Blizzard wants this to be Elden Ring - making you easy to kill, limiting health flasks, attaching abilities to gear, matching monsters to your level so it never feels too comfortable, giving you an open world and a horse... but that's not what Diablo is to me.

    Diablo has always been a source of relaxation and stress relief. Kill some monsters in extravagant ways, roll the dice    It's like Blizzard wants this to be Elden Ring - making you easy to kill, limiting health flasks, attaching abilities to gear, matching monsters to your level so it never feels too comfortable, giving you an open world and a horse... but that's not what Diablo is to me.

    Diablo has always been a source of relaxation and stress relief. Kill some monsters in extravagant ways, roll the dice on finding cool gear that opens up new gameplay options, feel stronger over time, and generally turn your brain off for a bit. Sure, you could try and push harder difficulties and challenge yourself more, but you didn't have to and it was still enjoyable.

    This new Diablo wants to be harder, but not in fun ways. Waiting for cooldowns feels bad. Waiting for your mana to recharge because mana flasks were removed feels bad. Being limited to six skill slots feels bad. Dying at the end of a Helltide so you just wasted your time and can't make up for it right away feels bad. Running into barriers on your horse feels bad. Not being able to respec easily feels bad. Getting to the end of a boss battle and running out of flasks feel bad. Being squishy feels bad (I played sorcerer, big mistake). Not being able to see the map while playing feels bad. And there being no interesting loot to make the rest of this bearable feels worst of all.

    I played the campaign and quit soon after that - it just doesn't seem like whatever design philosophy created this aligns with what I want from a Diablo game. Maybe if it's your first Diablo game you won't come in with these same expectations, but I had more frustration than fun with it.    … Expand
  79. Uruca
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    we're paying to be the game testers and we're still paying for everything for the unfinished and unbalanced game, for the cosmetics, for the battle passes.
    No rewarding activities, no feeling of improvement, leveling is painful.
    It's a shame, if it were possible I would like my money refunded
  80. arobins222
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Diablo 4 sucks!!! This is a perfect example of how AAA gaming companies loves to rip off their customers. Do not buy, you will regret.
  81. eternalism
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My gaming experience of S1 is awful! Those so called designers never try to make the game interesting, they only care about whether camel is barking or not. Since Blizzard ruined WC3 and Diablo in recent years, better think twice before purchasing their products in the future.… Expand
  82. Psicose
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    TLDR: Its a Diablo III reskin with scantly more depth. Wait till on sale.

    The Good: - Its a Diablo III reskin - "same" gameplay with different skills and bonuses. Its fun, I put in over 80 hours, so I paid approximately $1.00/hr for fun. I may return in a couple of seasons, so my value goes up. - I thoroughly enjoyed season one... "The Barber", nuf said. The Bad: - At about    TLDR: Its a Diablo III reskin with scantly more depth. Wait till on sale.

    The Good:
    - Its a Diablo III reskin - "same" gameplay with different skills and bonuses. Its fun, I put in over 80 hours, so I paid approximately $1.00/hr for fun. I may return in a couple of seasons, so my value goes up.
    - I thoroughly enjoyed season one... "The Barber", nuf said.

    The Bad:
    - At about level 85ish, the game loses its purpose and gets real boring and overly grindy.
    - Legendaries and Ancestrals need a name change to Powerball and MegaMillions. You have to go through 100's of them to find something to tolerate.
    - There is a LOT of stuff that is unexplained by the game. You must go find Youtubers to teach you otherwise you end up with 20 levels after you unlocked it, you will find things like the 's' button is a key part of a build or that power level, except for 700 and above, means nothing at all or that... list could go on for four or five paragraphs.
    - Only two or three side quests have characters and stories that are worth reading, and while we are at it (finger pointed at the whole industry), I am the most powerful wizard in the world...I defeated what heaven couldn't and your idea of great side quests are make them an errand boy *sigh*. If unlocking paragon points wasn't attached to them, I would never look at them again, as they don't effect jack.
    - Microtransactions, although not nearly as bad as 3 was in the beginning, if you want it, one complete outfit can cost you as much as the game.
    - If you don't pay for the season, your playability will be very limited.

    The Ugly
    - My biggest beef with Diablo IV is that in eleven years of development only this much got done? I expected more than a reskin with new skills which makes Diablo IV an eleven year old "Madden" game. You know the one, where EA updates a roster, adds a couple words and charges $70 every year. It took Blizzard 11 years to do what EA does every year.
    - Multiiplayer is super lacking. No hopping into random "Riifts" or interacting at all, in fact, when you see someone cross your path, you end up going the other way because it hurts you. My question is, what's the point of clans or being online-all-the-time if there is no good way to interact (other than emote "look" five million times). I joined two separate clans and unless you Discord, there is no simple way to hang out and join parties. Again, a D3 reskin.
    -Im old, I have seen and played all four iterations of Diablo on day one. If you look at the base, you will see a trend of most saying D2 was the best iteration, and with that I agree. Why is it we keep getting further from the best iteration rather than build upon that one? Oh yeah, that model didn't have season passes, microtransactions and was heading in a fantastic direction that we could all could see.    … Expand
  83. Senn4237
    Aug 10, 2023
    6
    Mediocre gameplay but beautiful design and art direction. Needs a lot of work.
  84. sunboy136
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Super bad! Bad design idea! Change day and night! All go to bad places!
    超爛的遊戲！    … Expand
  85. mrbeezy
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    70 EUR for this unfinished peace of a game. Its that kind ob bad and feels like a beta. Patches are ridicolous and slow. Never again in my life i buy a blizzard game on release.
  86. aehoppes
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    I tried really hard to give this game the benefit of the doubt. I see why people may like this, but there are so many things that bother me about it. I will just name the biggest one, and move on to reviewing a good game.

    They made a myriad of bad decisions with this game, often ignoring what makes an ARPG good. But the biggest problem in my mind is how can they ship a game where,    I tried really hard to give this game the benefit of the doubt. I see why people may like this, but there are so many things that bother me about it. I will just name the biggest one, and move on to reviewing a good game.

    They made a myriad of bad decisions with this game, often ignoring what makes an ARPG good. But the biggest problem in my mind is how can they ship a game where, although there are tons of varied and interesting ways to build a character, each class only has approximately 1 good way to build your character in order to succeed. Some classes may have 2, and some may have 0.

    I have no doubt that as long as they don't abandon this game like they have their last 5 or so, this game could be really good in about a year of updates.    … Expand
  87. Aliaster_S
    Aug 10, 2023
    7
    Initially, I was genuinely excited and played extensively upon the game's release. The campaign was truly captivating. However, the absence of top-tier quality content, coupled with poorly executed patches seemingly aimed at prolonging gameplay hours, has made the experience rather monotonous. The situation is exacerbated by the exorbitantly priced microtransactions, especially those forInitially, I was genuinely excited and played extensively upon the game's release. The campaign was truly captivating. However, the absence of top-tier quality content, coupled with poorly executed patches seemingly aimed at prolonging gameplay hours, has made the experience rather monotonous. The situation is exacerbated by the exorbitantly priced microtransactions, especially those for class-specific gear, which significantly detracts from the enjoyment.… Expand
  88. tony0914
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Shout for balance all day long, but make a career that is not balanced at all
    Stealthly change data everywhere, but wait until the player finds out before announcing it
    After hard work to collect good equipment, it will be directly turned into garbage, super poor game experience
  89. pahanzt
    Aug 10, 2023
    4
    The storyline seems empty.
    The ending and the cliffhanger are dull.
    Lacking fun bosses.
    The endgame is almost non-existent unless you very like mindless grinding.
    Not worth the money at the moment.

    P.S. Never thought I'd say this but Diablo Immortal at its current state is more enjoyable than D4.
  90. bruce945
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    **** game change with their mood. awful game, not even close to D3, not worth your money. Also boring as hell, lol
  91. Scalorize
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    The reason it gets a 2 rather than a 0/1 is because it is a game, there's no denying that. It just really sucks.

    I didn't play much of D3, only the last couple of seasons, but I actually started launching it instead of D4 a week into the release. That's how bad it felt to play D4. They're trying so hard to save the sinking ship as well, which is pretty sad to watch. Whoever thought that    The reason it gets a 2 rather than a 0/1 is because it is a game, there's no denying that. It just really sucks.

    I didn't play much of D3, only the last couple of seasons, but I actually started launching it instead of D4 a week into the release. That's how bad it felt to play D4. They're trying so hard to save the sinking ship as well, which is pretty sad to watch. Whoever thought that repeating NM dungeons from level 45 to 100 was a good idea (what is that like ~70-100 hours of gameplay?) was foreseeably wrong.

    If it took 30 hours to level a character from 0 to 100, then I would play. But as long as they continue to burn players time so that they can point to a graph of playtime and feel good about themselves I will not be reinstalling.    … Expand
  92. d49
    Aug 10, 2023
    1
    According to d4armory 400h in and uninstalled.
    Not that D4 is a D3 v2.0 but this is literally D3 development hell history repeating itself. Why? Read on. Bad project management and staff changes mid-way, constant changes with no clear direction or clear identity what it wants to be or which type of players it wants to target, and because it tries to cater to everybody, it ends up pleasing    According to d4armory 400h in and uninstalled.
    Not that D4 is a D3 v2.0 but this is literally D3 development hell history repeating itself. Why? Read on. Bad project management and staff changes mid-way, constant changes with no clear direction or clear identity what it wants to be or which type of players it wants to target, and because it tries to cater to everybody, it ends up pleasing nobody. The endgame, however you define it, is already done around level 85-90 where you get most of your BIS gear and get maybe 1 or 2 small upgrades. Leveling up to 100 will get you not much more than a couple paragon points, and whether you want to push 100 NMDs or uber Lilith is up to you, but there is very little to do around after 85-90: no item farming (grailing), no crafting, no trading. The bugs and missing QoL features and the fact that game requires multiple balance changes, and some emergency changes 1.5 months already after it launched, are clear indicators that they've totally messed up the testing phase.

    tl;dr: game released too early, too many bugs & missing features, no clear direction

    EDIT: Oh btw, there is no Diablo in this Diablo game. Who cares about Lilith, the very evil, the franchise's namesake, Mr. Big D himself, who returned time and time again, is NOT in this game. Ridiculous! Obviously reserved for an expensive $70 expansion.    … Expand
  93. Blizztards
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Misandrist company.

    Blizzard is now an incompetent misandrist company that makes incompetent games.

    Anyone who has shares in the company would be wise to sell them quickly.

    A company that was once loved by gamers is now despised by them. I expect the administrators will be knocking on the door in about 5 years tops.

    Boycott blizzard and encourage other people to do the same
  94. Maskenspiel
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Bad Story and a undeserved price, a game made to grab your money. The game feels not right, like Blizzards marketing. This was the last time, there will be no more money.
  95. eynix
    Aug 10, 2023
    2
    Game feels like a major cash grab. There's more focus on the mtx shop than anything else in the game. Classes feel dull and boring, very repetitive endgame. Itemisation needs a huge revamp. Developers seem very out of touch with the current arpg genre - everything is developed with battle passes in mind and it shows. it completely ruins the immersion and the game lacks any depthGame feels like a major cash grab. There's more focus on the mtx shop than anything else in the game. Classes feel dull and boring, very repetitive endgame. Itemisation needs a huge revamp. Developers seem very out of touch with the current arpg genre - everything is developed with battle passes in mind and it shows. it completely ruins the immersion and the game lacks any depth whatsoever. Have no idea how the critic reviews have gotten away with being so dishonest about the state of the game, rumour has it they were paid indirectly by Blizzard to help increase sales? Either way, this game needs a ton of work over the next couple of years.… Expand
  96. mrcracker5
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Mainline is fine but S1 is totally crap, designer does not know the core value of ARPG
  97. FeckBlizzard
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Blizzard is now run by derranged man haters.

    Everyone knows that allegations of sexual harassment against male employees is female pattern anti social behaviour. That's a criminal offence to be letting female employees making malicious false allegations against male employees. Where's the evidence? The women doing it should have been fired and convicted. Diablo 4 is an incompetent    Blizzard is now run by derranged man haters.

    Everyone knows that allegations of sexual harassment against male employees is female pattern anti social behaviour. That's a criminal offence to be letting female employees making malicious false allegations against male employees. Where's the evidence? The women doing it should have been fired and convicted.

    Diablo 4 is an incompetent mess.

    It's time to boycott Blizzard the same way men boycotted Gillette.

    But don't just boycott Blizzard games, encourage everyone you know to boycott the company as well.    … Expand
  98. pastuh
    Aug 10, 2023
    0
    Horrible. You cant even compare this game with Diablo1 and Diablo2. Its a game for 10y kids, which never played any game. Dark or horror mood not found.
  99. Stagh
    Aug 10, 2023
    1
    After playing D1, D2 and D3, it saddens me to just give 3 to D4. But some design decision are just terrible, especially these two ones:
    - Level scaling. This kills any progression feeling. All combats are similar. I am level 22, so all monsters and dungeons are level 22. When i reach level 23, guess what? Yes, they will be all level 23. For me, this is a deal breaker; if I knew that    After playing D1, D2 and D3, it saddens me to just give 3 to D4. But some design decision are just terrible, especially these two ones:
    - Level scaling. This kills any progression feeling. All combats are similar. I am level 22, so all monsters and dungeons are level 22. When i reach level 23, guess what? Yes, they will be all level 23. For me, this is a deal breaker; if I knew that before spending $70 on D4, I would not have bought the game. Didn't they learn from Oblivion and its infamous original level scaling?
    - MMO-lite: when I play solo, I don't want to see other players on my screen, especially when they are doing the same quest than me. If I want to play a MMO, I play WoW, for example.
    Some pros:
    - Nice graphics and animations
    - Many mini-dungeons.
    Some cons:
    - No runes
    - No item sets
    Update 08/10: now changing rating from 3 to 1, mostly because of nerfing patches that does not fix the main issues. The remaining point is for the good work of the artists.    … Expand
  100. Hoxra
    Aug 9, 2023
    0
    Game is okay for the first playthrough of the campaign.
    Then it's an empty shell of a dead idea reused just to kill the name diablo.
    The worst arpg in history probably.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 90 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 90
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 90
  3. Negative: 0 out of 90
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Aug 29, 2023
    66
    It’s almost like Diablo 4 developers are consciously fighting against everything that made classic Diablo fun. [Issue#262, p.80]
  2. GameCritics
    Jul 10, 2023
    65
    While the future of the game is anyone’s guess, at present Diablo IV is a solid, but strangely unambitious take that fails to bring much new to the table. By the end of my travels, I was more than willing to put it down and take a break — somewhere amongst all the grinding, Diablo IV had unfortunately ground me down as well.
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  3. Meristation
    Jul 7, 2023
    90
    The best Blizzard launch in a long time and a worthy game to be called Diablo.
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